From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:46:34 -0700 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20110811101127.52627669@wks-ddc.exosec.local>
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Is it obvious enough from the man pages that this wouldn't be too useful to
have on the Plan 9 wiki?
I'm a big believer in the wiki, but not when it pushes one to avoid reading
the authoritative documentation of the man pages.
Dave
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:11 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>wrote:
> In fact, it's pretty straightforward.
>
> In the following example, I consider you have a disk sdE0
> with Fossil, and you want to add a disk sdE1 with Venti.
>
> Create the Venti partitions:
>
> disk/fdisk -baw /dev/sdE1/data
> disk/prep -bw -a^(isect arenas bloom) /dev/sdE1/plan9
>
> Format the Venti file systems:
>
> venti/fmtisect isect /dev/sdE1/isect
> venti/fmtarenas arenas /dev/sdE1/arenas
> venti/fmtbloom /dev/sdE1/bloom
>
> Since the bloom filter requires memory equal to its size
> on disk, you could need to pass the parameter -s to fmtbloom
> to specify its size or directly adjust the partition size.
> Keep in mind that Venti use 20% total memory by default, and
> 1/3 of it is allocated to the bloom filter.
> For example, with 1 GB of memory, you cannot have a bloom filter
> larger than 64 MB (which is sufficient) with the default settings.
> Of course, the bloom filter is optional anyway.
>
> Configure Venti:
>
> echo 'index main
> isect /dev/sdE1/isect
> arenas /dev/sdE1/arenas
> bloom /dev/sdE1/bloom' | venti/conf -w /dev/sdE1/arenas
>
> Initialize the index sections:
>
> venti/fmtindex /dev/sdE1/arenas
>
> Read your current Fossil configuration:
>
> fossil/conf /dev/sdE0/fossil > fossil.conf
>
> Edit fossil.conf, it should look like something like:
>
> fsys main config /dev/sdE0/fossil
> fsys main open -V -c 3000
>
> Remove -V to open and srv if needed, then
> add the following line to enable automatic
> snapshots:
>
> fsys main snaptime -s 60 -a 0530 -t 2880
>
> (snapshot at 05:30, temporary snapshot each
> hour and discarded after two days)
>
> Write your new Fossil configuration:
>
> fossil/conf -w /dev/sdE0/fossil < fossil.conf
>
> Mount your 9fat file system, then add the following line
> to the file /n/9fat/plan9.ini:
>
> venti=#S/sdE1/arenas
>
> After rebooting, the current Fossil content will be dumped
> to Venti.
>
> --
> David du Colombier
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-11 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-10 16:21 Bernd Maier
2011-08-10 17:46 ` David du Colombier
2011-08-10 21:58 ` Steve Simon
2011-08-10 22:12 ` ron minnich
2011-08-11 8:11 ` David du Colombier
2011-08-11 13:46 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2011-08-11 13:56 ` Jack Norton
2011-08-11 15:37 ` David du Colombier
2011-08-11 15:15 ` Steve Simon
2011-08-11 15:30 ` David du Colombier
2011-08-13 19:12 ` geoff
2011-08-13 23:44 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-08-14 6:21 ` Steve Simon
2011-08-14 11:48 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-08-14 17:55 ` David du Colombier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-14 14:49 Bernd Maier
2011-08-12 9:53 Bernd Maier
2011-08-12 12:03 ` David du Colombier
2011-08-10 12:35 Bernd Maier
2011-08-10 15:25 ` Steve Simon
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